2. Building Private Clouds for HPC with OpenNebula: Reference Deployments & Lessons Learned Cloud Computing in a Nutshell HPC & IaaS Clouds: Two+ Basic Approaches Sample Deployments: CERN & Fermilab Lessons Learned A Third Approach: Grid & Cloud Computing
3. Cloud Computing Disciplines An Introduction to Cloud Computing Software as a Service Platform as a Service Infrastructure as a Service Physical Infrastructure
42. Examples of HPC Cloud Deployments TheCERN’slxcloud Goal & Characteristics Virtualization of Batch Nodes: limted life-time, dynamic capacity Golden Nodes + CERNVM EC2 Query – OpenNebula API Some Technical Notes Custom Network Integration MAC/IP pinning Disk I/O Tunning Fast boot of VMs: Bittorrent + LVM snapshots OpenNebula tests up to 16000 VMs (great feedback!)
43. Examples of HPC Cloud Deployments Fermicloud Goal & Characteristics Scientific stakeholders get access to VMs (no sysadmin needed) Developers & Integrators of new Grid applications Improve utilization of power, cooling and humans Legacy applications Some Technical Notes VMs access Fermilab Networking and Storage Services Using KVM OpenNebula + X509 support (contributed back!) Other Areas: HA, Batch queues look-ahead, cluster on-demand…